Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

"Paolo Ciarrocchi" [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

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How can I look to what I just downloaded?
Should I simply do a git diff?

If you have reflog enabled (it should be by default) then a good thing
to remember is the @{1} notation.  For example, if the fetch updated the
origin/master branch, then origin/master@{1} is what your origin/master
was before being updated.  To see the difference between the previous
and the current state of origin/master, you can do:

       git diff origin/master@{1}..origin/master

Or to see the list of new commits:

       git log origin/master@{1}..origin/master

       git log -p origin/master@{1}..origin/master

Etc.

Very nice, I didn't find in the documentation.
I'll read again the documents and if needed, I'll propose some new text.

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This notation is a bit obnoxious and the re were suggestions about
addind the equivalent origin/master@{1..} but that didn't materialize
yet.

Mybe it's just me but wouldn't be very nice to have a simple command
to look at what data have been used for updating the currente branch?
i.e.
git fetch
git diff -- fetch (which is an alias of git diff
origin/master@{1}..origin/master)

And how about a repository which have reflogs disabled?

I'm also a newbie, and I think you are on a wrong road. Usually it's not
that interesting what was downloaded. What is interesting is what is on
'origin/master' that is still missing from 'master'. For this I think
you have:

$ git log master..origin

-- Sergei.